Five houses in North Carolina collapse into the Atlantic Ocean

BUXTON, N.C. (CBS, KYMA) - Five unoccupied homes collapsed into the ocean along North Carolina's Outer Banks Tuesday as Hurricane Imelda passed offshore in the Atlantic Ocean.

According to a statement from Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the collapses occurred within a 45-minute period, from 2:00 p.m to 2:45 p.m. Eastern.

Footage from Jenni Koontz of Epic Shutter Photography captured two of the five Buxton houses falling into the water, crashing into other properties and littering the shore with debris.

"The destruction is unmeasurable here on Cape Hatteras," Koontz wrote in a post to Instagram.

According to a news report, 17 houses in the Rodanthe and Buxton area had now collapsed in the last five years.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Imelda was a Category 1 hurricane approximately 630 miles west-southwest of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 km/h), according to the National Hurricane Center.